Cleidogona bifurca Loomis

Shear, William A., 2013, A new miniature species of the milliped genus Cleidogona from Costa Rica (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae), with a review of Central American Cleidogonidae, Zootaxa 3635 (1), pp. 87-93 : 90

Cleidogona bifurca Loomis

Cleidogona bifurca Loomis, 1974 , p. 184

Type and only locality: Cartago, Cartago Prov., Costa Rica.

It is hard to make sense of Loomis’ description of this species and the single gonopod illustration is diagrammatic in the extreme, a lateral view from the evidently undissected holotype. He also refers to a bifid “lamina” in front of the twelfth legpair, evidently a structure additional to the usual forward-projecting sternal peg, which he describes separately. This would be a character unique in the family. See additional notes under C. curvipes .